> -----Original Message-----
> From: Staikov, Andrii <andrii.stai...@intel.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2023 6:00 AM
> To: Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.kel...@intel.com>;
> intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org
> Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; Ostrowska, Karen
> <karen.ostrow...@intel.com>; Mateusz Palczewski
> <mateusz.palczew...@intel.com>; Drewek, Wojciech
> <wojciech.dre...@intel.com>; Kitszel, Przemyslaw
> <przemyslaw.kits...@intel.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH iwl-net v4] i40e: Restore VF MSI-X state during PCI reset
>
>
> > The ice driver recently started caching the PCI device structure
> > pointers in their VF structure instead of having to do this sort of
> > lookup on the fly.
> >
> > See 31642d2854e2 ("ice: store VF's pci_dev ptr in ice_vf") [1][2]
> >
> > [1]:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/intel-wired-lan/20230912115626.105828-1-
> mateusz.polchlo...@intel.com/
> > [2]:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231019173227.3175575-4-
> jacob.e.kel...@intel.com/
> >
> > Can we do something similar for i40e?
>
> For now we don't anticipate much benefit of this approach, and we want
> relatively
> smaller change for a bugfix.
>
> Regards,
> Staikov Andrii
Sure. If we ever need the VF PCI dev pointer in the future we can look into
this. Not a huge deal for this since it’s the only place we use it currently
anyways. Thanks for the response!
Thanks,
Jake
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